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Puerto Vallarta 2009 (Duc, John, & Joleen)
Beautifully wilderness, peaceful ocean surface, no big waves this time of the year; warm
water, nice sand & bronze sculptures along the board walks....
With an exceptional agressiveness of the "time-share" sale agents, local people - especially the
beach-vendors who walk around all day long to sell things along the beach - were worth sharing some
thoughts. Watching them carrying things around & walking up and down trying to sell their stuff
under the scorching sun was the most heart-wrenching thing to witness.
$30 or $40 pesos might not mean much to vacationers like us but it would be their lucky day if they
could sell 3 or 4 bracelets and/or necklaces a day as I chatted with one of those vendors.
Each time travelling to Mexico, witnessing such less fortunate lives that fight for their
hard-earned money is always a heart-wrenching thing to observe.
On the bright side of things, such images bring me back to my own sense of being lucky, appreciated, content,
and humble for what I have. Such sense of one's own humility can only be easily related to when one
actually sees such people with his own eyes, talks to them, and shares a few thoughts with them so
that he can easily step into their own world.
See if you can spot those beach-vendors (covered with white) who carry things (almost anything you can think of)
around the beach...
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